STORY. THE APPLICATION FOR STATEMENT OF CHARGES DESCRIBES HOW BALTIMORE POLICE DISMANTLED KEITH AND VALERIA SMITH’S ACCOUNT OF JACQUELYN SMITH’S MURDER. INVESTIGATORS SAY VIDEO FOOTAG CONFIMRS KEITH, VALEIRA, AND JACQUELYN WERE AT AN AMERICAN LEGION HALL THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER. BUT 27 CAMERAS COULD NOT CORROBROATE THE ROUTE SMITH SAID HE TOOK AFTER LEAVING. ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, THE DATA RETRIEVED FROM VALERIA SMITH’S ACCOUNT INDICATED THAT AFTER LEAVING THE AMERICAN LEGION, HER CELL PHONE WAS NORTH OF THE AMERICAN LEGION IN DRUID HILL PARK NEAR THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE CITY, MARYLAND FOR APPROXIMATELY 12-16 MINUTES . IN THEIR STATEMENTS, MR. AND MS. SMITH EACH STATED THAT THEY HEADED SOUTH AFTER LEAVING THE AMERICAN LEGION. NEITHER INDIVIDUAL MENTIONED GOING TO DRUID HILL PARK DETECTIVES SAY SMITH CLAIMED HE GOT LOST AND DIDN’T WANT TO ADMIT IT WHEN HE WAS ASKED WHY HE NEGLECTED TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE STOP IN THE PARK AS FOR FORENSIC EVIDENCE LATENT PRINTS FROM THE EXTERIOR PASSENGER SIDE OF THE SMITH’S VEHICLE WERE RECOVERED AND WERE DETERMINED TO BE KEITH SMITH’S. INVESTIGATORS SAY LUMINOL REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF BLOOD IN UNSUSPECTING AREAS OF THE VEHICL DETECTIVES USED WITERTAPS TO TRACK THE SMITHS. AND SAY KEITH ATTEMPTED TO BOOK ONE WAY TICKETS TO CUBA AND CANADA ON FEBRUARY 2 APPARENTLY, HE WAS UNABLE TO SECURE A RESERVATION BECAUSE EHE -- HE DOES NOT HAVE A U.S. PASSPORT. POLICE SAY SMITH SEARCHED ONLINE TO FIND OUT IF THERE WAS A WAY TO CROSS INTO MEXICO WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE BORDER INVESTIGATORS SAID KEITH AND VALERIA SMITH WERE 20-MINUTES FROM THE MEXICO BORDER WHEN THEY REQUESTED ARREST WARRANT LIVE OUTSIDE POLICE HEADQUARTERS, VANESSA HERRING, WBAL TV 11

Charging documents obtained by the 11 News I-Team in the investigation into the killing of Jacquelyn Smith contain lengthy details about the investigation.Keith Smith, 52, of Aberdeen, and his daughter, Valeria Smith, 28, of Baltimore, are charged with Jacquelyn Smith's killing on Dec. 1, 2018. Investigators said the two concocted a story about a panhandler killing Jacquelyn Smith in the 1000 block of Valley Street in east Baltimore.Read charging documents hereBaltimore police investigators said surveillance video, cellphone records and forensic evidence refuted the Smiths' claims that panhandlers were responsible for Jacquelyn Smith's killing.According to police, officials were able to confirm Keith and Valeria Smith's statements that they, along with Jacquelyn Smith, were at an American Legion hall on Madison Avenue on Nov. 30. However, investigators said video evidence proves the father and daughter lied about the route they took to east Baltimore and that cellphone records show they were in Druid Hill Park for 12-16 minutes the night of the killing.Keith Smith told investigators he got lost and didn't want to admit it in prior statements.The documents state that Keith Smith gave inconsistent statements to police, and that Valeria Smith gave statements that contradicted her father.Police said Keith Smith got a rental truck and drove to Winter Haven, Florida, after that interview.The Smiths claimed a panhandler stabbed Jacquelyn Smith just before 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 1. Detectives went there the same morning as the killing and said they "were unable to locate an actual crime scene, related evidence, witnesses or video surveillance footage that supported initial statements given by Keith Smith and Valeria Smith" and that during interviews, "residents consistently stated that panhandlers did not hang out in that block." Police said blood was found on the passenger side of the car and that the only latent prints recovered from the exterior passenger door of the vehicle belonged to Keith Smith.The medical examiner said Jacquelyn Smith was stabbed five times in the chest.According to charging documents, Keith Smith approached his brother and asked if he would help kill Jacquelyn Smith. The brother told police that Keith Smith told him how Jacquelyn Smith was talking about divorce, according to the charging documents.Detectives used wirertaps to track the Smiths and said Keith Smith attempted to book one-way tickets to Cuba and Canada on Feb. 28. Apparently, he was unable to secure a reservation because he does not have a U.S. passport. Police said Keith Smith searched online to find out if there was a way to cross into Mexico without going through the border.Keith Smith and Valeria Smith were arrested Sunday near the Texas border with Mexico. In the application for statement of charges, investigators said Keith and Valeria Smith were 20 minutes from the Mexican border when officials requested arrest warrants.Police said the pair will be brought back to Maryland on March 20. They waived extradition Monday.As part of their ongoing investigation, investigators are looking into the couple's finances and personal life.

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Charging documents obtained by the 11 News I-Team in the investigation into the killing of Jacquelyn Smith contain lengthy details about the investigation.

Keith Smith, 52, of Aberdeen, and his daughter, Valeria Smith, 28, of Baltimore, are charged with Jacquelyn Smith's killing on Dec. 1, 2018. Investigators said the two concocted a story about a panhandler killing Jacquelyn Smith in the 1000 block of Valley Street in east Baltimore.

According to police, officials were able to confirm Keith and Valeria Smith's statements that they, along with Jacquelyn Smith, were at an American Legion hall on Madison Avenue on Nov. 30. However, investigators said video evidence proves the father and daughter lied about the route they took to east Baltimore and that cellphone records show they were in Druid Hill Park for 12-16 minutes the night of the killing.

Keith Smith told investigators he got lost and didn't want to admit it in prior statements.

The documents state that Keith Smith gave inconsistent statements to police, and that Valeria Smith gave statements that contradicted her father.

Police said Keith Smith got a rental truck and drove to Winter Haven, Florida, after that interview.

The Smiths claimed a panhandler stabbed Jacquelyn Smith just before 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 1. Detectives went there the same morning as the killing and said they "were unable to locate an actual crime scene, related evidence, witnesses or video surveillance footage that supported initial statements given by Keith Smith and Valeria Smith" and that during interviews, "residents consistently stated that panhandlers did not hang out in that block."

Police said blood was found on the passenger side of the car and that the only latent prints recovered from the exterior passenger door of the vehicle belonged to Keith Smith.

The medical examiner said Jacquelyn Smith was stabbed five times in the chest.

According to charging documents, Keith Smith approached his brother and asked if he would help kill Jacquelyn Smith. The brother told police that Keith Smith told him how Jacquelyn Smith was talking about divorce, according to the charging documents.

Detectives used wirertaps to track the Smiths and said Keith Smith attempted to book one-way tickets to Cuba and Canada on Feb. 28. Apparently, he was unable to secure a reservation because he does not have a U.S. passport. Police said Keith Smith searched online to find out if there was a way to cross into Mexico without going through the border.

Keith Smith and Valeria Smith were arrested Sunday near the Texas border with Mexico. In the application for statement of charges, investigators said Keith and Valeria Smith were 20 minutes from the Mexican border when officials requested arrest warrants.

Police said the pair will be brought back to Maryland on March 20. They waived extradition Monday.

As part of their ongoing investigation, investigators are looking into the couple's finances and personal life.